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Nathan from ThisAndThatTech.com.
Today we are taking a look at
Sundered, which is a
Metroid-vania inspired game
developed by Thunder Lotus
Games, who are also the creators
of Jotun.
And it's currently available for
Windows, Mac, Linux, and
Playstation 4.
The game immediately introduces
you to its main protagonist,
Eshe, as she's wandering through
this apocalyptic world where
once two warring groups fought
over a mysterious stone to gain
more power.
Now, as this war converged, a
rift in reality caused eldritch
energy to spill into these
caverns, whereby all the
inhabitants turned into
monsters.
Eshe finds herself trapped in
the caverns and meets a
mysterious force who guides her
along the way while she chooses
to "resist" or "embrace"
corruption in attempts to free
herself from the caverns back
into the world above.
As far as controls and elements,
Sundered is built upon trial and
error.
As you're exploring the map
you're gonna gain new abilities
to unlock different portions of
the map as well as defeat
randomly spawning enemies to
collect these shards, which is
Sundered's currency for
upgrades.
Eventually, you'll come across
swarms of enemies that become
insurmountable, so they're going
to be filling the entire screen,
and it's gonna create way too
much chaos, so you're forced to
either meet your demise or warp
back to the Sanctuary, where you
can level up your stats and
abilities using your shards that
you collected on a skill tree.
Then you just start all over and
explore again.
It's very much rogue-like
because you die often, which is
expected for a game like this.
I should note that there is no
permadeath or loss of shards, so
you should get continually
stronger as time goes on.
The upgrade system at first
glance seems gargantuan, like
it's gonna offer you limitless
customization, but you will find
that you need almost every
upgrade on your first
playthrough, so there's not one
path you can heavily invest in
while forgetting about the rest
of the skill tree.
In fact, I even found a good
farming spot at one point, so I
decided to spend a bit of time
to radically upgrade Eshe all at
once.
That proved to be a good plan,
albeit less useful than I had
hoped, considering how the last
region was devastatingly
difficult to me.
Sundered also features perks,
which are equippable bonuses
that you find throughout the
game.
You've experienced perks if
you've played any other first
person shooter, for example.
They offer damage mitigation, an
increase in shard drops, extra
damage, et cetera.
Sometimes negative effects as
well, along with the positive
effects.
Then we have the last
enhancements, elder shards.
Now, elder shards are dropped by
mini-bosses and main bosses,
some of which have epic battle
sequences, by the way.
And after you collect a certain
amount, Eshe can then use them
to either "embrace" or "resist"
the dark powers hidden within.
This influences the types of
abilities you can receive and
simultaneously affects the
end-game storyline.
There are three regions to
explore and all of them have a
pretty sizable map that can be
easily accessed with the left
trigger on your controller.
You'll notice that the overall
map and locations seem to always
stay the same, but there are
gray areas that are randomly
generated every time you die or
return to the Sanctuary.
These randomly generated areas
don't drastically change much
for the player, but can confuse
you if you're going off memory.
Speaking of the map, one big
issue I have with it is the
inability to zoom in to plan out
your routes better.
Seems like something that could
be integrated with a patch,
though, so I'm hoping they fix
that because it can be
frustrating at times.
Movement in battle is fluid and
from the very start you feel
capable.
Even taking on a large amount of
monsters seems plausible because
of the speed in which Eshe
moves.
You'll find yourself using the
dodge feature constantly, which
essentially makes Eshe
invincible for a few seconds
while she quickly rolls out of
danger for a brief moment.
This can only be used a finite
amount of times, however, as
it's linked to her energy bar.
Speaking of the HUD, along with
health and ammo, you also have a
shield gauge that refreshes to
mitigate damage.
At the same time, this is one of
the first problems I have with
Sundered.
The reason that dodge button is
there is because there are
hordes and hordes of enemies
invading the screen at any given
time.
The game essentially becomes a
"bullet hell" of chaos and there
were plenty of times where I
couldn't see anything on-screen
at all, which can be really
frustrating, of course.
Couple that with a floating
camera perspective that
sometimes moves a little bit
behind and get ready to have
your senses overloaded.
It's certainly not
game-breaking, but you really do
have to prioritize enemies to
slay in anticipation of the
screen being too overloaded with
baddies.
Graphically-speaking, Sundered
is gorgeous.
From the hand-drawn art
animations integrated with the
music, it's just an intense
experience.
And this is gonna date me a
little bit, but it reminds me of
two games we put a lot of
quarters in at the arcade called
Space Ace and Dragon's Lair.
And the reason everybody wanted
to play those games is because
they were so cartoon and
lifelike.
And that's exactly what you see
here in Sundered, from the
animations of the tentacle
creatures moving around to even
the death sequences with Eshe,
it's just a sight to behold and
I really hope that we get to see
more developers pursue this art
style because I just love it.
Sundered throws you right in,
which is appreciated in a day
where a game can be very
plodding at first.
However, the difficulty spikes
can be frustrating and seemingly
pop up out of nowhere, which
means you may die a lot.
You couple that with the
inclusion of shortcuts, but
complete lack of fast travel and
you have a recipe for
replayability, but in a bad way.
It's odd they don't feature fast
travel either, as they give you
a method in the last region that
makes it much more agreeable to
move around.
So to me this just seems like a
mistake.
They might patch it.
It'd be great if they did, but I
wouldn't hold your breath.
Upgrades are entertaining and
useful, but a lot of them show
up quite late in the game, which
left me wanting more in terms of
being able to utilize them.
Feels like maybe there should be
one more region to play through.
One of the things that Sundered
touts is that progression is
supposed to be non-linear.
I feel as this is somewhat true
in theory, but I still found
myself stuck at points and going
through each region one at a
time and I think you probably
will too because there's
definitely some walls in
difficulty.
You know that difficulty spike
is definitely an issue and it
affects all of these different
categories under pacing here for
me.
So is it fun?
Look, there are some issues with
the pacing, but overall Sundered
is a beautifully animated game
that will scratch an inch for
those who are interested in the
Metroid-Vania genre.
The gameplay is fast and when
you couple them with the
striking visuals, you're in for
quite a few hours of
entertainment.
$20 is the price of entry and I
think it's reasonable given the
content.
Well, that's all I have for you
today.
Please like, comment, subscribe
and hopefully see you in the
next video!
Thanks for watching.
Have a good one.
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